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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Posted 5:42 PM by Gene

I just noticed that Virginia linked to a blogger who says the only way the Times can save its soul is with (roll your eyes) more of the pop-culture rag -- endless praise of rappers, endless praise of movies, endless praise of "graphical novels," endless praise of....Ignoring that this is precisely what HOWELL tried to do, this sort of aggressive puffery and condescension will NOT get the young into the newspaper habit. They've already been weaned off by the Web. And after L'Affaire Blair, what's wrong with "the return of prejudice against youth" anyway, Vir-GIN-ia?

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